My Son had just bought an Epiphone Uke that came with black ukulele strings... He really liked the tone on those so He wanted to change strings on his Ovation Uke too... I picked these up from musicians friend for cheap and much to our suprise they came in and we put them on and wow the tone seemed twice what the clear strings were... Maybe it was just the older strings were a couple of years old but all I can say is I was pretty happy with the tone and they tuned up pretty quick so no complaints here...